Life course interpretations

• Age groups 45-59 and 60-74

• Continued evidence of migration moves down the urban hierarchy, although again a selective move down…
• Net migration gains to Successful Family In-migrants and Coastal and Rural Retirement Migrants clusters from other clusters account for 8 of top 10 flows in 45-59 age group – fitting with pre-retirement transition (Bures, 1997, Plane and Jurjevich, 2009)
• At 60-74 reduction in distance decay β parameter after increasing friction since 20-24 indicates that at age of retirement, distance much less of barrier to migration moves